BBC Question Time was cut short on Thursday after a member of the audience fell ill while the programme was being recorded.
The flagship BBC One current affairs debate programme was about 40 minutes into filming, at Colchester town hall in Essex, when the woman became unwell.
Medical staff attended to look after her, but recording was cut short after she could not be safely moved.
Business Secretary Greg Clarke, Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott, former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord Hogan-Howe, former chief executive of Marks and Spencer Lord Rose and crime writer Dreda Say Mitchell made up the panel on Thursday.
Shortly before the incident they had been asked: "What is the point in capitalism?", and the broadcast version ended as Business Secretary Greg Clarke debated housebuilding measures announced in the Budget, with the programme cutting to host David Dimbleby.
Apologising for the shortened programme, he said: "I'm afraid at this point we had to curtail this edition of Question Time. A member of the audience was taken ill and couldn't safely be moved so we had to bring the programme to a close."
A post on the programme's Twitter page said: "An audience member on tonight's QT was taken ill. Our first priority was to make sure that she was looked after by medical staff who attended. As a consequence tonight's Question Time was slightly shorter than billed."
The truncated edition of Question Time was broadcast as planned at 10.45pm, while Andrew Neil's political magazine show This Week was moved forward.
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